Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-08-17
LOCAL AND oTmx. yUrs.
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senafneIs Reporter.

senafneI's Reporter.
Don't forget the social this evening.
Colfax lost so buildings in the late fire
Judge A. L. Fitzgerald returned hom,
from Phoebe last night.
Mrs, VIM. Tonkin and children arrived
here from Gold Hill yesterday.
See, the man holds up the post. Is the
post loose2 No; the man is tight.
Mrs. W. j. Townshend and son arrived
homo last night by White Pine stage.
Four young ladies in a quadrille at Sar.
atoga last week represented $40, DOC, 600.
Hon, A. @. Cleveland arrived from bis
ranch last night by the White Pine stage.
Mrs. George Mullins arrived home yes
terday from . few weeks visit to Caiifor-
mia.
Maggie Mitchell has n OF the choicest
collections of gems OF any American
woman.
j. L. Thompson, an old-time business
| man OF Mineral Hill, came up from that
place yesterday.
Mrs. A. D. Rock returned home from
Salt Lake City yesterday, where she has
been for her health.
A New York newspaper wants the peo-
| pie OF that b%roiling city to adopt the Chi
nese costume in Summer.
New York has q law compelling hotels
to provide each room with q ROPE long
enough to reach the ground, for use as q
fire escape.
j. P. Edoff arrived here from Elko yea.
terdsy aud will return there tomorrow,
whence he will proceed to his home at
Oakland, Cal.
The Esmeraldas having tasted blood are
now ready to give the Amateurs Of Car
son another battle anywhere but upon
their own dunghill.
1t has been found that the Chinese OF
Reno have for a long time been selling
liquor to Indians, and a leader OF the
business has been nsbbed.
A book has been written for "middle-
aged women" 1t will be Q middle-sged
book before a woman will be seen buying
10 for her own reading.
Gustave Posi-, the 6-year-old son Of P.
Pfosi, fell off the foot bridge crossing the
Truckee river, at Truckee, on Saturday
afternoon, and was drowned.
Elko has been invaded by skunks and
polecsts; also, according TO the %Independ-
ent, by the "Mephtis Americana" which
Is the worst s.inker Of them ell.
The San Francisco medical students
complain that q " corner in the market
for corpses for anatomical purposes in
medical colleges has been created.
A mammoth hotel, three stories in
hight and covering 125x75 feet, Is pro-.
jected for Reno. The plans have already
been decided upon and estimates given.
Csrsonites are world. heaters as melon
eaters. They devour whole carloads. The
quarter Of q ffty.oent melon makes just
a meal fit for the mouth Of a Carson belle
An Arizona Coroner. who travelled 100
miles in quest of q corpse, was dis
gusted when he found 10 was alive. But
this does not happen very often In Ari-
IONA.
Emanuel Kshnstamm, who upon his
majority will inherit q great fortune, spent
Saturday night and Sunday in q Long
Island Jail. charged with embezzling at
the Brighton races.
Elko Free Press: While unloading q
load OF rock at the ranch one day last
week, William Hunter had the end Of the
second finger OF his right hand cut square
of by q 200-pound rock falling on 1t.
California contains the two largest vine
yards in the world: Senator Stsnford's
vineyard at Vina, Tehama county, Of
$500 acres, and the Nadeau vineyard Of
Florence. Los Angeles county, of 1850
acres.
George Rose, the s~heepherder. who was
arrested last Saturday night, on a charge
OF poisoning sheep belonging to John
Shoemaker, had 9 hearing before Justice
Sanders Yesterday, which was continued
until to-day.
James Cowie, an engineer, for many
years 9 resident Of Eastern Nevada, who
has been for some time past afflicted with
paralysis, leaves this morning for Kings
ton. Ontario. Canada. where he will re-
main with his friends.